She realized that adventures, once they were over, were things that had to stay inside one - that no one else could quite understand.
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I’m glad to see that Journey to The River Sea seems to be persevering as something of a new children’s classic. A worthy contender for the title.
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Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
Place: The Amazon, Brazil, and London
Age range: 9-12
Genre: Juvenile Adventure Fiction
Plot: Maia feels at home in the boarding school where she lives in London, in 1910. It is the only home she has known since her parents died two years earlier. When distant cousins are discovered 4,000 miles away, Maia must travel to the exotic Amazon River town of Manaus to live with them. She is accompanied on her journey by a governess, the imposing Miss Minton, who has her own secret reasons for accepting a post so far from home. They arrive in South America and soon discover that the Carters, Maia’s cousins, are selfish and greedy people who isolate themselves from the wild beauty of the countryside around them. With the help of her clever governess, Maia finds moments of brief escape from their stifling home and makes friends with a strange Indian boy named Finn and a homesick child actor called Clovis. Soon she is swept up in the human intrigues and natural wonders of the world around her. As she helps her new friends to follow their dreams and desires, Maia learns what is most important to her and where her own future will lie. (Taken from publisher)
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Pray for the people of Palestine.
You. Yes, you. Call out to Lucifer, the light-bringer, the morning star, and pray for something far beyond yourself. Beyond your flesh and blood, beyond your own needs and desires.
O, Lucifer, bear your clarifying torch before the people of Palestine. Show them your light, empower them in their time of need.
Liberate the people from all threats, reunite families and cease the witless carnage.
I pray for the safety of those in danger, and for the freedom of each Palestinian person facing cruelty in the sullied name of the 'holy land.'
For you, Lucifer, my lord, I offer my devotion, full and true. I offer my time, my trust, and a place within my home.
Use my offerings, and use them well. I extend my soul to you.
** Note: Remember! Prayer is not the only way to help. Sign petitions, donate where you can, and boycott any pro-Israel business you can live without. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
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There is no point in trying to "educate" your favourite celebrities and authors about Palestine. There is decades worth of information about the genocide commited against Palestinians and if someone is advocating for some "peace on both sides" bullshit it's not because they're uneducated. It's because vocally supporting Palestine is getting people fired from their jobs, blacklisted, destroying their careers. If someone comes out with a wishy-washy "my heart breaks for the violence on both sides 🥺" stance, they have cynically chosen to prioritise their career over human lives. At that point, there is no point trying to educate someone because you want them to be a good person. Your focus shouldn't be on your favourite celebrity's personal moral journey. It should be on supporting and freeing the people of Palestine.
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Bought the audiobook of a book i LOVED when i was a kid
Are you guys ready in case I get obsessed with it
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remembering tonight "变得不适应因为它们原本来自江河大海 世上本不应该有池塘" (said by a monk character) and thinking about the sea being repeatedly suggested to be the place with the last traces of lxy - and llh - in this world
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They drove past mansions painted in every colour: pink and ochre and blue, with flowers tumbling from window boxes. In the gardens surrounding them were blossoming orange and lemon trees, and mangoes, and wonderful creepers climbing over the railings.
And on the far side of a huge square, stood a magnificent building roofed in tiles of green and gold , with the eagle of Brazil in precious stones soaring over the top.
~ Eva Ibbotson
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The Cool Salt-Breeze
Their voices are like coursing water
Through the hard scalding ground
How they quench frail bodies
Beneath the lash of the sun
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I chase their crashing joy
Their tumbling wrath
Southbound for the sea
Where they’re remade in its shadows
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I fear the mouth of the river
The long trail snuffed in sand
Where familial songs
Bid a stifled goodnight
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I dread the cool…
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love how they’re once again highlighting sally’s importance to percy’s journey to being a hero. yes he’s a child of the sea and all but it was sally who took the initiative—it was sally’s words that saved him in the river.
but also the whole learning how to swim thing is such a great contrast from the film where they had percy start off underwater lol and im pretty sure it’s to once again highlight his humanity over his divinity—as if to say being a child of poseidon doesn’t come naturally, but being a son of sally jackson does!!
the show’s just constantly screaming This Is A Kid And He’s About To Be A Hero Because He Was Raised By By His Mortal Mom and i love it
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